Tag: Stephen Hawking
Mathematician Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note
Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing will be the next person to feature on the £50 note, the Bank of England has confirmed. The selection of the mathematician, who is often credited as being the father of computer science, was announced at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who…
The Digest: Microsoft kills Clip Art… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Microsoft Office kills Clip Art, replaces it with Bing | PC World "You'd better enjoy Microsoft's cheesy Office Clip Art catalog while you can, because it may be going away in favor of Bing. According to a Microsoft support page, the company is retiring its Office Clip website. As an alternative, Microsoft suggests…
Go Compare star Stephen Hawking sees birthday celebrated in style thanks to Intel
Professor Stephen Hawking, a name you'll recognise as the star of car insurance firm Go Compare's latest advertising campaign (oh, and yeah, the theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and greatest living mind of our times) has seen in his 70h birthday…
